Plaxico Burress
Plaxico Burress
Plaxico Antonio Burress is a former American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers eighth overall in the 2000 NFL Draft and also played for the New York Giants and the New York Jets. He caught the game-winning catch of Super Bowl XLII as the Giants beat the New England Patriots. He played college football at Michigan State...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth12 August 1977
CityNorfolk, VA
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I didn't really understand those things until I was older. But just to come from something like that, with a person like that, willing to sacrifice everything for the people she loved. That's why I am the way I am.
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I think it will be a challenge for us because people are going to start gunning for us now. We've just got to be ready each week to make everybody believe in us.
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I think the people of New York are happy. We came out here and handled our business and now we can go home and give those guys one playoff game. They're going to be rowdy.
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I don't think people really believe that we can get the job done. There's still a lot of people thinking that we can't make the playoffs. We're a 3-1 football team and they still think we're the worst team in this division. That kind of motivates us a little bit to go out and show everybody what we're really capable of doing.
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Some people say I may have underachieved when I was in Pittsburgh, ... But you have to have the opportunity to achieve anything, period, much less overachieve. And I think I was a big-play receiver in Pittsburgh. I only averaged 20 yards per catch (actually 19.8 in 11 games last year).
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It kind of seemed like everything was thrown on my back off of one play that I didn't make, ... and I took that kind of personal, from the people in that city and some of the things that were said about me.
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We're not leading the league in scoring for no reason. Two weeks ago when we played the Rams (and won 44-24) we could've scored 65 points. We know we're leaving plays on the field even though we're putting up big numbers. And we know we can get a lot better.
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I don't think he should have gone that far. I figured I'd get fined, but I didn't think I'd miss the whole first quarter.
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We all know that we've been one play away from winning the football game. I think we know that there's one or two plays that kind of comes back and bites us a little bit. If we don't have a lull on those one or two plays, then we win the football game.
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We all knew we pretty much shot ourselves in the foot in that second quarter. Everyone knew we just had to cut out the mistakes.
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(The opportunity for completions has) definitely been there. But for some reason we've kind of stayed away from it a little bit.
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I was surprised to see that. I didn't expect him to follow me to both sides of the field. I said, 'Oh man, I've got my work cut out for me today.' He's one of the best there is. We had a good battle. I won some, and he won some.
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I make those plays every day in practice. I just didn't make it.
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She drove a public school bus for 13, 14 years, every day, then would come home and cook, and she wouldn't eat because there wasn't enough food for all of us,